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After another bad experience taking marine oil pills--it was algae oil and caviar SPMs this time--I asked Brave AI for answers. After years of unexplained heart pounding after meals, breathlessness from sunlight this year, and five months of having to take the maximum dose of Mucinex every day, I have some answers and suggestions about what to do.  IMPORTANT: MCAS symptoms vary from person to person. What AI recommended for me might not be right for you. AI generated by Grok.  Fish & other marine oils ME: marine oils like krill oil and algae oil give me acne and acid reflux. I have MCAS also. BRAVE AI:  MCAS changes the picture significantly, and it actually unifies both your symptoms under one mechanism. The key finding: omega-3 epoxides promote mast cell degranulation A 2017 Nature Medicine paper (Arai et al.) identified omega-3 fatty acid epoxides — the exact same CYP450 products we've been discussing (including the DHA epoxide that becomes 19,20-DiHDPE via sEH) — ...

I'm finally getting answers about weird health problems that have kept coming and going over the years for no reason I could ever explain: pounding heart, bloating, insomnia, heat intolerance, intolerance of high-fat meals, and getting winded easily even though I'm physically fit. These health problems all came roaring in at once this spring when I did a huge landscape project, pushing through it even while I had a cold. The yard looks fabulous, but I ended up with A three-week cold Post-viral syndrome for another few weeks An ongoing cough  Insomnia (tired but wired late at night) A puffy face, especially in the morning and after eating foods I’d previously tolerated (including SIBO yogurt) 6 pound weight gain TATT (tired all the time) Being easily winded Having a hard time cooling off Being sensitive to sunlight Grok (X’s AI feature) said this could be mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS). Mast cells are immune system cells that put out pathogen-fighting and other substances ...